Predator 8 Development

herschwolf
herschwolf Member Posts: 2 New User

Since it appears that Acer is dropping support for the Predator 8 (no updates on this device and it's still running 5.1). Is there any way of getting development support for this device? I would love to continue development on this structure, but would like a system image of the device. This would mainly be used to pull the BoardConfig.mk data and allow me to reflash the system partitions should I break the OS while trying to develop for it.

 

I apologize if this talk is not allowed here, I'm not trying to circumvent any copyrights or ownership, I merely want to open this hardware up to the vast possibilities that exist within the Open Source Android world. I bought this device assuming we would be getting regular updates for this "gaming" tablet, but I have yet to see anything substantial from the company in almost a year of release.

 

Acer, if you won't support the community that has purchased your devices, please open it to the Android Development Hobbyists the world over.

 

-"Hersch"

Answers

  • Jose-Acer
    Jose-Acer Administrator Posts: 1,335 Community Administrator

    Hello Hersch,

     

    You can download the image from our Drivers and Downloads page.

     

    GT-810.png

  • herschwolf
    herschwolf Member Posts: 2 New User

    Thanks!! I didn't even realize that the tabs at the top were links. Appreciate the help!

  • arjaylzo
    arjaylzo Member Posts: 6 New User

    WARNING! I've Done THAT!

     

    I flashed the Image via the unit's stock recovery, but that image seem to have an issue with the Kernel wherein the Battery Monitoring API gets stuck on 25%

     

    <4>[    8.175742] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    <4>[    8.175753] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2335 at ../../../../../../../kernel/cht/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:5239 valleyview_modeset_global_resources+0x59c/0x5b0()
    <4>[    8.175755] Modules linked in:
    <4>[    8.175759] CPU: 1 PID: 2335 Comm: recovery Not tainted 3.14.37-x86_64-L1-R517 #1
    <4>[    8.175760] Hardware name: Insyde Cherry Trail Tablet/Cherry Trail FFD, BIOS V1.08 05/07/2015
    <7>[    8.175764]  0000000000000009 ffff8800747139b0 ffffffff819f4813 0000000000000000
    <7>[    8.175767]  ffff8800747139e8 ffffffff810898dd ffff880074ed0000 ffff8800771ee000
    <7>[    8.175769]  0000000000000001 ffff8800771ee308 000000000000010a ffff8800747139f8

     

    And this one as well, So I eventually had to re-image my tablet using this after I installed God-fire and played 5 mins. After that, the unit shuts down and rebooted, followed by a stuck PREDATOR Logo infinitely.

     

    So that Image file helped in Reviving the unit but only half alive.

  • arjaylzo
    arjaylzo Member Posts: 6 New User

    <6>[    5.577751] max17042 i2c-MAX17047:00: max17042_get_acpi_cdata: BCFG table found, size=313
    <6>[    5.586906] max17042 i2c-MAX17047:00: max17042_get_fg_config_data: Got fg config data from acpi
    <3>[    5.600440] power_supply max170xx_battery: driver failed to report `present' property: -11
    <4>[    5.610309] thermal thermal_zone1: failed to read out thermal zone 1
    <3>[    5.617471] power_supply max170xx_battery: driver failed to report `present' property: -11
    <6>[    5.645932] hwmon hwmon3: DEBUGFS wcove_bcu created successfully.
    <3>[    5.654301] intel_powerclamp: Intel powerclamp does not run on family 6 model 76
    <4>[    5.663812] int3400 thermal: probe of INT3400:00 failed with error -17
    <6>[    5.694396] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.11
    <6>[    5.700732] iTCO_wdt: Found a Cherry Trail SoC TCO device (Version=3, TCOBASE=0x0460)
    <6>[    5.710411] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
    <6>[    5.717853] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
    <6>[    5.723554] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.27.0-ioctl (2013-10-30) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
    <6>[    5.733544] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
    <6>[    5.740467] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman

     

    -- notice the error on the Device's Battery Guage.

  • Rubencr
    Rubencr Member Posts: 1 New User

    http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/6400?b=1 stock rom in there, and kernel source code on documents tab,